"state or condition of having men or males at the center," 1907; see androcentric + -ity.
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androcentric adj.
"having males as the center," 1887, from andro- "man, male" + -centric. Popularized from 1911 by feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Man-Made World or, Our Androcentric Culture."
The man was accepted as the race type without one dissentient voice; and the woman — a strange diverse creature, quite disharmonious in the accepted scheme of things — was excused and explained only as a female. [Gilman, from "The Man-Made World"]
-ity
word-forming element making abstract nouns from adjectives and meaning "condition or quality of being ______," from Middle English -ite, from Old French -ete (Modern French -ité) and directly from Latin -itatem (nominative -itas), suffix denoting state or condition, composed of -i- (from the stem or else a connective) + the common abstract suffix -tas (see -ty (2)).
Roughly, the word in -ity usually means the quality of being what the adjective describes, or concretely an instance of the quality, or collectively all the instances; & the word in -ism means the disposition, or collectively all those who feel it. [Fowler]